Analysis of XSS Attack Mitigation Techniques Based on Platforms and Browsers

In the recent years, everything is in web. It may be Organization's administration software, Custom ERP application, Employee portals or Real estate portals. The Social networking sites like Face book, Twitter, MySpace which is a web application is been used by millions of users around the world. So web applications have become very popular among users. Hence they are observed and may be exploited by hackers. Researchers and industry experts state that the CROSS-Site Scripting (XSS) is the one of the top most vulnerabilities in the web application. The cross-site scripting has become a common vulnerability of many web sites and web applications.